I know there are words that untranslatable from another language to English (i.e. poshlost, toska) but are there any words that are untranslatable from English to another language?
You can already rule out words with latin or germanic roots. What's left?
>>9726907
gobledygook maybe?
>>9726976
no you can't idiot
>durr languages have changed in the past 1200 years ??????
Is possible for a male to make a book that will be a hit among women?
>>9726534
My diary desu
>>9726534
Yes of course. James Patterson gets them panties wet.
Who is John green
I miss the old /lit/, straight from the /book/ /lit/,
Start with the Greeks /lit/, none of the weak /lit/.
I hate the new /lit/, the full reddit /lit/;
The always /pol/ /lit/, philposting shit /lit/.
I miss the sweet /lit/, reading the memes /lit/,
I gotta say, at that time i wanted to be /lit/.
See I invented /lit/, it wasn't any /lit/,
And now I look and I look around and there's so many /lit/s.
I used to love /lit/, I used to love /lit/,
I even had the trilogy, I thought I -was- /lit/.
What if, /lit/, wrote a book about /lit/,
Called "I miss the old /lit/?" Man that'd be so /lit/!
That's all it was /lit/...We still love /lit/...
And I love you like /lit/ loves /lit/.
>rhyming lit with lit
>>9726519
>rhyming /lit/ with shit
>kanye dicksucking
>>>/mu/
Which one of you plebs did this
>>9726458
A thread died for your post's sins. Repent and delete this.
>>>9726458
been listening to outkast all day
>>9726458
>out whited
America is a disgrace
What do the Buddhist and Buddhism-readers-scholars-practitioners in /lit/ think about the Buddha manga, by Osamu Tezuka?
Despite all the liberties took with the original life of the Buddha, despite all the deviations and artistic inventions, I myself have a great respect for this work.
What I like in it above all else is this:
>The portrait of Buddha as having doubts and insecurities even AFTER the enlightenment. The constant demonstration of Buddha as a human being, susceptive – of course, much less susceptive than other people - to the temptations and dangers of bad emotions and feelings, even after he had achieve great degrees of wisdom. (This doesn’t seem to be all invention, for I read in one book that there is an description of Buddha needing to leave his community for a while to cool off his head, alone*)
>The demonstration of how wild, unjust, cruel and violent was the time and the place where the Buddha lived, how unequal was society in his time and how strong one should be to make his/her peace with such a world. It helps those of us who cannot ignore the harsh realities that still boil in every corner of the planet.
>The emphasis on Buddha trying his best to make the politicians of the time (kings and princes) act with reason, compassion and kindness. In other words: the portrayal of Buddha as someone actually engaged in social and political matters of the day, and not simply a wise recluse (and here one should note that Tezuka was not being unfaithful to the real man, for the Buddha actually had discussions and debates with the monarchs of his time and tried his best to make them act properly, although he failed many times in those endeavors).
*I read this in Stephen Bachelor’s “Confessions of a Buddhist Atheist”, where he writes:
“I am living hemmed in by monks and nuns,” thought Siddhattha Gotama to himself one day in the Ghosita Monastery near Kosambi, “by kings and ministers, by sectarian teachers and their followers, and I live in discomfort and not at ease. Suppose I were to live alone, secluded from the crowd?” So after returning from his alms-round, he tidied his hut, took his bowl and robe, and, without informing anyone, set off unaccompanied for Parileyyaka, where he stayed alone in a forest beneath a sal tree. Even the Buddha, it would appear, was oppressed by the organization he had created to uphold and spread his teaching.
The Buddha’s words come from the Naga Sutta: The Bull Elephant
>>9726446
>The Buddha’s words come from the Naga Sutta: The Bull Elephant
The first paragraphs of the Naga Sutta:
I have heard that on one occasion the Blessed One was staying near Kosambī at Kosita's monastery. And on that occasion the Blessed One lived hemmed in with monks, nuns, male & female lay followers, kings, royal ministers, sectarians, & their disciples. Hemmed in, he lived unpleasantly and not in ease. The thought occurred to him: "I now live hemmed in by monks, nuns, male & female lay followers, kings, royal ministers, sectarians, & their disciples. Hemmed in, I live unpleasantly and not in ease. What if I were to live alone, apart from the crowd?"
So, early in the morning, the Blessed One adjusted his under robe and — carrying his bowl & robes — went into Kosambī for alms. Then, having gone for alms in Kosambī, after the meal, returning from his alms round, he set his own lodgings in order and, carrying his bowl & robes, without telling his attendant, without informing the community of monks — alone & without a companion — left on a wandering tour toward Palileyyaka. After wandering by stages, he reached Palileyyaka. There he stayed in Palileyyaka in the protected forest grove at the root of the auspicious sal tree.
>>9726446
I liked it, especially the scene where naradatta enters samsara after bein' a hermit for his entire life
>>9726516
>enters samsara
I am not an expert but don’t you mean “enters nirvana”?
How many of y'all actually DON'T think you're secretly the next literary genius of the age but nobody pays attention to you because you're just too advanced?
Bro, probably half the reason anybody writes is because the want to be heralded as a genius, its good motivation.
Well I don't think so because I haven't published anything yet.
But don't worry, I've already chosen the title for my manifesto.
>>9726515
what is it
Was it autism?
>>9726317
indeed
no it was the sun
>>9727777
checked
He deserved what he got.
Lots of sodomy?
Acclaim and admiration?
AIDS?
Can we get a comfy fake rupi poem thread going. I'll start us off.
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/S9454211
>>9726075
the ocean of my mind
drains into your soul.
you weren't looking though.
I always thought of us
As a love story ,
To you I've just been a sticky note
that first scene in the train; the straight-forward, earnest, naivety - how can i learn to act like that?
>>9726045
1. Brain damage
2. Become epileptic
3. Be almost executed
>>9726045
You don't need to act like that, Anon. Just be and act like yourself.
:)
be russian
Redpill me on Aleister Crowley
he likd saten
What went on in his head? Did he talk to the dead?
>>9726036
he liked sex and wrote poor prose.
Was Raskolnikov the original average 4chan man?
>thinks he's extraordinary but is actually ordinary
>thinks he's an intellectual
>does nothing all day
>autistic
>fell in love with a prostitute
>>9725998
No he's just a normie degenerate. (I'm not saying that 4chaners aren't degenerate though)
>>9725998
Actually Dostoiesky used to lurk here the 2007-2009 era.
>>9726014
Haha, good one. xD
has anyone read the new translation by landstreicher yet?
>>9725807
>spooks
>eidolons
It's on my reading list for the summer, got a review?
>>9725819
nah, just starting. pretty hyped after the introduction, been a while since i read stirner. for people who have only read the old translation, i'd recommend reading stirner's critics and landstreicher's intro to that before this - he mentions critics a few times in the new intro.
i want to read one of his books on linguistics - which one is most influential?
>>9725780
Course in General Linguistics by Saussure
>>9725785
have already read that - want something by chomsky
I would begin with Syntactic Structures. You might also look into an introductory book on mathematical linguistics. Set theory and logic are crucial.
Has anyone read this? If so, is it worth reading?
I've heard really good things
>americans have no national culture so they have to invent the "white race" to claim other people's achievements
Really makes me think.
I liked it but it completely ignored antidiluvian everything.
Read Evola instead or first.